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NASA targeting June 19 for crucial test of Artemis 1 moon rocket NASA plans to take another crack at a crucial fueling test of its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket on June 19. SLS will make its debut on the upcoming Artemis 1 mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a journey around the moon.
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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft lands in New Mexico after successful test flight Three red, white, and blue parachutes slowed the capsule to gentle landing velocity of 17.7 mph (28.5 kilometers per hour). Airbags at the bottom of the spacecraft cushioned the jolt of touchdown, ending a long-delayed demonstration mission to the ...
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The greatest meteor storms of all time Dozens of meteors from the Geminids fill the night sky. Meteor storms can consist of thousands of meteors an hour, far more than regular meteor shower like the Geminids photographed here.
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Fragments of a dying comet might put on a spectacular show — or pass by without a trace As Earth orbits the sun, it ploughs through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids.
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Watch the Mars helicopter Ingenuity take a record-breaking flight in daring NASA video Since videos are larger than images, it takes a while to send stuff via interplanetary networks, and operational data must come first on missions, that likely accounts for some of the delay in receiving the footage.
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Sunspots: What are they, and why do they occur? Sunspots are dark, planet-size regions of strong magnetic fields on the surface of the sun. They can spawn eruptive disturbances such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These regions of the sun appear darker because they are cooler than ...
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Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks In the Mojave Desert of Southern California, Bob Stephens has a wide view of the cosmos, where space rocks whiz in all directions. But Stephens is intent on making sense of that chaos. Some of his latest projects: tracking an asteroid he suspects to ...
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New Mars study traces erosion history on the Red Planet in search for water A new study attempts to find periods of more intense erosion on Mars in hopes of understanding when water flowed on the world's surface. Water can carry larger pieces of rock into collisions, breaking the rocks faster, so accelerated erosion might be a ...
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captures video of record flight Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's black-and-white navigation camera has provided dramatic video of its record-breaking 25th flight ...
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NASA Shares Ideas for Humans Landing on Mars, Asks for Input Here's an idea. Someday in the future, NASA sends four people on a mission to Mars. Two of them land on the surface and live in a pressurized rover while conducting science operations for 30 days. The other two astronauts remain in orbit.
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